I just switched to ST from years of being a Wink person. I was hoping to take advantage of the open platform being a software developer myself. My excitement rapidly faded when I was unable to integrate my ST hub with IFTT (deal breaker for me if it doesn’t work).
I tried from the IFTT app, the IFTT browser version, nothing works.
As soon as you try to “add” the ST service to IFTTT, it pulls the ST auth page. I login successfully, select my hub, my devices then click Authorize.
I get then redirected back to the IFTTT app, that still displays the “Connect” button.
Same behavior with the desktop IFTTT web site. The only difference is that when you get redirected back to the IFTTT website, you get an error that reads “Could not connect to Smartthings”.
In the ST app, when you go to to Automation"-> “SmartApps”, you can see IFTTT with the proper access you selected earlier from the devices drop down when you connect IFTTT to ST.
Any ideas?

I recently bought my first SmartThings hub (v2) in a kit with two lightify a19 bulbs. So far everything is working great and i can control the lights from the app or my Google Home. However I also wanted to try integrating with IFTTT --but every time i try to connect from ifttt it fails.
I'm going to https://ifttt.com/smartthings where I click connect, enter my ST credentials and then get a screen where I select my location and get a list of devices. I check my bulbs under switches and click authorize. And I get message on the next screen that says "Could not connect SmartThings" and ifttt doesn't let me use SmartThings in recipes -- it acts as if I've never logged in. I can see IFTTT under Smartapps now in the app on my phone too, but again IFTTT acts as if it can't see anything.
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It’s also listed in the first bug reports in the community – created wiki. That’s a good place to check if you encounter a problem that’s not listed on the official status page.

Thanks! Yes I found out many other people are experiencing the same issue. IFTTT is a real pillar of any decent home automation solution. It’s a real bummer. It takes away all the excitement to contribute to the community and build some apps. Hopefully they’ll fix the bug soon. I’m keeping the ST hub packaging just in case I get fed up and decide to return it.

Thanks! Yes I found out many other people are experiencing the same issue. IFTTT is a real pillar of any decent home automation solution. It’s a real bummer. It takes away all the excitement to contribute to the community and build some apps. Hopefully they’ll fix the bug soon. I’m keeping the ST hub packaging just in case I get fed up and decide to return it.

I understand. Having the IFTTT channel/service has always been a big plus for SmartThings, so I’m sure it’s very frustrating not to have it working.

The problem still isn’t listed on the official status page, so definitely report it to support if you haven’t already. That’s how they track trending problems, support doesn’t read the forums.

I did report it Friday evening. I don’t know if they work during the weekend, but I’ll try the live chat tomorrow. Thank you for your help! I started coding some apps. Already got my gate opener and garage door to work on ST so I can open it and close it from the iphone widget. Next I’m going to add a sensor to find out the state of the gate at any particular time, then I’ll setup some notifications to send me emails or texts when the gate has been open for more than 10 minutes. The end goal is to have IFTTT notify my ST hub when I get close to home so that it can open the gate, turn on the lights, open the garage, and when my automatic detects that I turned off the engine, it will notify IFTTT to turn off the lights and close the gate. Hopefully the IFTTT channel will get fixed because otherwise none of this could happen!

You might need IFTTT for the automatic integration, but other than that you should be able to do everything without it.

Since you have a technical background, I would definitely take a look at Core. It’s sort of like a scripting language for SmartThings. I think you’ll find that it saves you from having to write a lot of individual Smartapps from scratch.

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.”
Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you.
For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. :dog::blush:
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The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

There is an Automatic integration for ST, but it does cost a (small, reasonable) fee.

I just bought an Automatic Pro this week and integrated it.
If you set up the RT (Real Time) events for it, you can have the vehicle added as a presence sensor. This means you could then setup automations based on it being present and the engine being turned off (I have not tried this yet, but it should work).

Hello,
My Automatic Service Manager is now able to receive real-time events through webhooks.
I think that this integration would potentially bring more ST users to Automatic and vice-versa. It’s sort of win-win situation for both platforms. ST support of websockets could also be a good solution in the long term.
Benefits of the direct integration with Automatic (instead of going thru IFTTT):
Less lag time to receive real time events (as IFTTT is an additional platform in the flow of events)
You can customize the fuel cost according to your local cost (whether in USD or other currencies)
Nice graph to show the distance vs. cost metrics
Regards.
Here are some screenshots of My Automatic Device that I’ve created so far:
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EDIT: Please take no…

Hi @diehllane, I’ve tried to send you the latest version of MyAutomatic device (v2.4.4) but it seems that the email address I have on file (msn) is not working. Could you email me
at services@maisonsecomatiq.com?

It just setup my new hub and I am having the same problem with IFTTT. As far as I can tell it is just happening with IFTTT because I connected my hub to Stringify and it works there. It looks like this problem is known back in January and is still not fixed. What are they doing over there. I would not have purchased this hub and sensors if I knew these bugs were still here. Looks like I may return them in the next day or so if this is not fixed.

Thanks for the info. I tried this and got the same results. Someone at Smartthings need to know this because this seems like an easy fix and should not take two months to fix. Stringify is pointing to the correct URL.

It may be an issue on IFTTT’s side, because if I check the “Live Logging” section of the SmartThings API console online while connecting the two, it shows IFTTT’s request to connect and it looks like Smartthings authorizes it successfully. It also shows some of my devices “in use by” IFTTT, so they look authorized properly on the Smartthings end… Just collecting more clues here.

I talked to their tech support today and they acknowledged the bug. They stated that somebody was working on a fix, and they think they know what’s going on, but they do not have an estimated ETA. They will get back to me once it’s resolved, and I’ll update this feed. It’s very annoying indeed.

Just to update here, I contacted support about this issue today and they told me the same exact thing. They stated it is high priority but they have no ETA on a fix. I just installed my hub last weekend so I have yet to see what is possible with IFTTT, I really hope they get this fixed while I am in the window for a refund.